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Neo your son plays nice piano and it is real cool to see and hear you two playing music together.     

Thank you everyone for taking time to have a listen and give me some feedback.  TF you are right  Africa has big potential to grow food but poor management and corruption has ruined many farms over there.  Around the world because of industrialization leading to loss of agricultural land, population growth, and the demand for more meat instead of grain as China’s incomes rise. China is projected to need to import 240 million tons of food annually by the year 2030. Yet, total world agricultural trade is currently just 200 million tons of grain or grain equivalent, and that amount is decreasing as the exporting countries consume more and more of their own food products. Water tables on every continent are falling, as water is pumped out at far greater rates than rainwater can replenish in order to provide irrigation for agriculture.  I think food producers in the future will benifit financially from the Chinese market only if there is a balance of trade.
Most economies need exports or foreign currency  in order make their countries have a standard of living.

It is claimed that 78% of children who are malnourished under 5 years of age live in countries with food surpluses. Global food loss and waste amount to between one-third and one-half  of all food produced.

Prices paid for food are determined globally while the cost of food is determined locally.
Since the World Trade Organisation was established, world hunger has increased Export crop production has become the focus in many agricultural societies.
International corporations control food resources. In the past as well as today developing countries are used to supply more affluent nations with CHEAP resources and agricultural products.
The majority of large scale tobacco, coffee,  production is done in countries that we would consider to be developing.
Countries with high rates of poverty and malnutrition, and poor health care.
Countries where agricultural lands would be better used to grow food rather than cash crops to be exported to wealthier nations.

The problem we have faced from economic globalization is the intensifying unequal distribution of employment and income.

The World Bank states that the world food supply in 1994 could have fed 6.4 billion people so hunger stems not necessarily from lack of food, but also for economic and political reasons. The world produces enough grain to feed every person at least 3,500 calories a day yet 800 million people in the world are hungry. Three fourths of people who are hungry live in Asia, Africa, or Latin America
Back on my mother's  family  and tribal Island of  Ovalau  in Fiji most of the people who live on that island don’t have much money but are rich. The reason is because no one goes hungry or homeless and there is fresh water and good education and the  health care is ok. People fish and grow food, money and posession are not a big part of the culture there. Visitors sometimes see them as poor but the people there consider themselves wealthy. Sorry about my long  rave, but  I think the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations  has made things worse for most countries..
Having written all that my song is  just me  putting these two tourists comments I heard talking  about their town the other day into a simple Blues form.
Thank you for your time and encouragement my friends.     

Wow reading this felt like you had written about me and Maree and how I feel about her. You and Ann have a very special love. After thirty seven of marriage to Maree I find even though we can be as differant as chalk and cheese we wouldn't swap each other.  One thing that  hasn't grown in Maree to love about me is my attempts at music, though every now and then she will indulge me.     

As usual Jan your voice sounds great.  To do that song Jazzy with a ukulele would be hard even for a Jazz singer. I like your folky version. It is  hard for a vocalist  , playing their  own backing to jazz up and yet keep that tempo.     I should imagine the 7th chords would be hard to play on a Ukulele.

Jim your a champion songwriter I look forward to hearing it.     

Beamer you and your Boy  SOUND GREAT TOGETHER.     

Poems often emerge in the midst of strong emotions. Your  poem does describe your painful experience vividly and creatively,I hope it can make  some sort of  sense of this experience .as you travel on down the road and it becomes part of an old chapter in your life.

Wow EB that was excellent Richard and Jan gave you a challenge that showed your good vocal and guitar talent. Like Willie you did it in a nice laid back way..     Neo did a great job of EB and Phills song. I have enjoyed  listening to this months FSOTM contributions.

Great song Jim. Getting  Phill the perfect singer and guitarist for your song genius.     

Beamer your words take me back to grey time I was in years ago screaming out for the grey to turn into  sunshine. I felt like I was in Hell but I knew a path had to apppear out of the pit I was in and the only way from the valley I was in was up. I climbed out of that darkness eventually a better and stronger person

Wow what a talent and so young. That made my Sunday afternoon down here in NZ. Great find Bill. Interesting info on her and the music from CG and Neo.